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[ rik-i-tee ] / ˈrɪk ɪ ti / SEE SYNONYMS FOR rickety ON THESAURUS.COM
adjective, rick·et·i·er, rick·et·i·est.likely to fall or collapse; shaky: a rickety chair. feeble in the joints; tottering; infirm: a rickety old man. old, dilapidated, or in disrepair. irregular, as motion or action. affected with or suffering from rickets. pertaining to or of the nature of rickets. Origin of ricketyFirst recorded in 1675–85; ricket(s) + -y1 SYNONYMS FOR rickety2 decrepit, frail, withered, unsteady, wobbly. SEE SYNONYMS FOR rickety ON THESAURUS.COM OTHER WORDS FROM ricketyrick·et·i·ness, nounWords nearby ricketyrickettsialpox, Rickettsia prowazekii, Rickettsia rickettsii, Rickettsia tsutsugamushi, rickettsiosis, rickety, rickey, rickle, Rickover, rickrack, rickshaw Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for ricketyShe looks at you and then points to a rickety wooden boat about twenty-five meters from where you stand. Whatever You Do Someone Will Die. A Short Story About Impossible Choices in Iraq|Nathan Bradley Bethea|August 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST There were taxis, called “hackneys,” which were rickety stagecoaches cast off by the rich and repurposed as transport for hire. Great Cities are Born Filthy|Will Doig|July 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST Ray gave Jay a shell, then stepped onto a small, rickety carousel in the comer of the churchyard and loaded up. The Stacks: The Judas Priest Teen Suicide Trial|Ivan Solotaroff|June 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST "Yeah, all right," he mutters, then follows his brothers out of the room, down a rickety flight of stairs and into the crucible. The Stacks: The Neville Brothers Stake Their Claim as Bards of the Bayou|John Ed Bradley|April 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
We were staying in this cool, rickety, haunted hotel on Lake Michigan and just had an amazing time. Olivia Wilde on ‘Drinking Buddies,’ Skinny-Dipping, Booze, and More|Marlow Stern|August 19, 2013|DAILY BEAST The men kept the water under with the pumps, and the sharp jerk, jerk of the rickety handles rang all night. A Dream of the North Sea|James Runciman Ashton-Kirk nodded, but before he could reply in words there came a clatter upon the rickety stairs at the far end of the entry. Ashton-Kirk, Investigator|John T. McIntyre He was a dangerous man to tackle in argument if your knowledge of the subject was rickety. Lines in Pleasant Places|William Senior It was really bad weather, and the waves washed clean over the rickety little vessel. A Lady's Tour in Corsica, Vol. I (of 2)|Gertrude Forde With this reply Old Sharon held out his unwashed hand across the rickety ink-splashed table at which he was sitting. My Lady's Money|Wilkie Collins
British Dictionary definitions for rickety
adjective(of a structure, piece of furniture, etc) likely to collapse or break; shaky feeble with age or illness; infirm relating to, resembling, or afflicted with rickets Derived forms of ricketyricketiness, nounWord Origin for ricketyC17: from rickets Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to ricketydilapidated, shaky, decrepit, broken, flimsy, wobbly, ramshackle, derelict, feeble, fragile, frail, imperfect, infirm, insecure, jerry-built, precarious, rattletrap, rocky, unsteady, wavering |